Sugar-free nitrate-free bacon? Does it exist?

My husband won't eat sugared bacon due to colitis, but all the nitrate-free bacon options have sugar in them. Is there a sugar-free nitrate-free brand I can order online or something? I can't seem to find one in Atlanta. He is ok with honey but can't find that either, only sugar.

I haven't found any either (and have a feeling if I did they would be prohibitively expensive) however I have found some bacons that are cured with either no or a lot less sugar and if you take those and soak them in water in the refrigerator over night it will leech out a lot (though not all) of the sodium, nitrates and sugar. I don't eat a lot of bacon but I find this helpful (and I like the fact that the bacon is a lot less salty).

I don't think there's any such thing as nitrate-free bacon regardless of the sugar content. The bacon that has no sodium nitrate added tends to use sea salt or celery salt instead, which contains natural nitrates. A bacon without nitrates of any kind would rot. Some people thing the sodium-nitrate-added kind might actually be better, because the quantity of nitrates can be more carefully controlled to hit the sweet spot between too little (food will rot) to too much (not healthy).

Liz.

Zone diet on and off for several years....worked, but too much focus on exact meal composition
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I don't think there's any such thing as nitrate-free bacon regardless of the sugar content. The bacon that has no sodium nitrate added tends to use sea salt or celery salt instead, which contains natural nitrates. A bacon without nitrates of any kind would rot. Some people thing the sodium-nitrate-added kind might actually be better, because the quantity of nitrates can be more carefully controlled to hit the sweet spot between too little (food will rot) to too much (not healthy).

Thanks, I've also read about this elsewhere. He loves his bacon so I am worried about the nitrates. I haven't convinced him to eat it less often...